My cursor keeps freezing on my MacBook Pro. Anybdy have a fix?

Hi I'm using Verison 10.8.4 and i'm not sure if its an upgrade issue but my cursor suddenly started freezing or sticking and sometimes it disappears. I would appreciate a fix if anyone has one?

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THe kern is a bad font and actually in this case is not the problem (i'd disable it though anyway). The problem is with your 35 duplicates.
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You've identified your 35 duplicates in font book. Keep that list open to act as your reference.
You want to remove the older duplicate versions and maintain the new leopard opentype versions.
View each folder in list view so that you can see the size, kind and modification dates noting that:
The Apple supplied fonts are
a) larger in size,
b) have a newer creation date and
c) have a .ttf extension, the fonts installed by Office 2004 do not.
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Arial
Arial Black
Comic Sans MS
Tahoma
Trebuchet MS
Verdana
Webdings
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(You can reinstall them later from there if needs be).
Even though the fonts are in separate font folders their very presence is causing the conflict.
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You may need to activate some fonts that were inadvertently switched off by font book.
Repeat until all duplicates are fixed and all fonts are activated and valid.
If you have office you may want to remove the office preferences files and the Microsoft folder from your user/library/preferences folder (don;t delete just drag into a separate folder.
Restart your Mac
Hope this helps and please post back with your results.
M.

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